Hi,I've just ordered Dish Network and am trying to figure out ways to use Vonage to let the Dish receiver "dial in" to home base which it needs to do once a day. I've done a lot of forum searches and suspect it can be done (*99 etc. etc.) BUT I have some special circumstances. Firstly I have Verizon FIOS fiber and so I don't have copper telephone line to the house any longer. Today I use Vonage and the Wireless Vtech 8100 system so my traditional phone jacks are "dead". I can get a phone line connection from the receiver and potentially route through a Modem capable "wireless phone jack" (like RCA) to the room where my routers are but at the other end I only have a direct connect into my FIOS router OR a connect through my IP8100 WAN port - neither of which are "telephone" connects. Questions - can I use a second phone adapter (like Linksys or Moto products) and connect via IP8100 WAN port OR direction to Actiontec router and still use my single Vonage line? Do I need a Vonage FAX line to make the Dish modem connection work? If I get an additional line is there still issues with having 2 adpaters attached to the network???

I've just ordered Dish Network and am trying to figure out ways to use Vonage to let the Dish receiver "dial in" to home base which it needs to do once a day. I've done a lot of forum searches and suspect it can be done

I told DirecTV that I didn't have a home line. They said no problem. Are you sure that the Dish "has" to phone home every day?

Yes - it's useful (but not required) for PPV ordering and apparently Dish uses it as a way to ensure (rather poorly) that receivers ordered are the at the same location. If you don't have it they still install and then add $5 per month to your bill!

Yes - it's useful (but not required) for PPV ordering and apparently Dish uses it as a way to ensure (rather poorly) that receivers ordered are the at the same location. If you don't have it they still install and then add $5 per month to your bill!

Yeah, I know about the PPV thing. I had Dish before DTV and had a phone line hooked to it. DTV doesn't charge me anything for not having it plugged in.

I told them no hone phone because I knew I was canceling my telco shortly and had no plan at the time to do Voip. Thought it best to get it out of the way up front than after the fact.